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. The film premiered at the Saguenay International Short Film Festival in March 2015, where it won the Prix créativité and the Bourse de création régionale. It was screened in the

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, where it received an honorable mention from the Illy Prize jury. The film received a Quebec Cinema Award nomination for Best Short Film at the

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* 2015 short films 2010s musical comedy-drama films Canadian musical comedy-drama films Quebec films French-language Canadian films Films directed by Jean-Marc E. Roy Films directed by Philippe David Gagné Canadian comedy-drama short films 2010s Canadian films {{2010s-Canada-film-stub